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Exhibition Objects

Welcome to Exploring Objects. Here you can explore the rich collection of objects that have been unearthed from the Creswell Heritage Area. To find an object, type in the words that best describe what you are looking for and click ‘Search’

Mother Grundy’s Parlour plan

Plan of Mother Grundy’s Parlour drawn by A.L. Armstrong on tracing paper and then in ink for publication. The drawings show a plan of the cave excavated in 1878, including the rear passage where a child’s skull had been found. The shaded area in front of the cave entrance on the west side of the platform shows the site of A.L. Armstrong’s excavation. Here, he found Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flint artefacts and butchered wild horse teeth. Near to the centre of the excavation area, Armstrong has marked the position of a small hearth which was surrounded by limestone slabs. A radiocarbon date suggests that the hearth was Late Upper Palaeolthic. Armstrong described an area to the left of the hearth as the ‘inglenook’, where he envisaged a Palaeolithic flint knapper to have sat.